The Orange Pi 6 Plus

by rcarmo on 4/11/2026, 5:48:02 PM

https://taoofmac.com/space/reviews/2026/04/11/1900

Comments

by: BirAdam

I love that OrangePi is making good hardware, but after my experience with the OrangePi 5 Max, I won’t be buying more hardware from them again. The device is largely useless due to a lack of software support. This also happened with the MangoPi MQ-Pro. I’ll just stick with RPi. I may not get as much hardware for the money, but the software support is fantastic.

4/12/2026, 1:38:38 AM

by: james-clef

Something in me wants to buy every SBC and/or microcontroller that is advertised to me.

4/14/2026, 9:25:51 PM

by: adrianwaj

One or two USB-C 3.2 Gen2 ports are all that's required - can then plug in a hub or dock. eg: <a href="https://us.ugreen.com/collections/usb-hub?sort_by=price-descending" rel="nofollow">https://us.ugreen.com/collections/usb-hub?sort_by=price-desc...</a>Can also plug in a power bank. <a href="https://us.ugreen.com/collections/power-bank?sort_by=price-descending" rel="nofollow">https://us.ugreen.com/collections/power-bank?sort_by=price-d...</a>The advantage is that if the machine breaks or is upgraded, the dock and pb can be retained. Would also distribute the price.The dock and pb can also be kept away to lower heat to avoid a fan in the housing, ideally.Better hardware should end up leading to better software - its main problem right now.

4/14/2026, 9:10:42 PM

by: Neywiny

Disappointing on the NPU. I have found it's a point where industry wide improvement is necessary. People talk tokens/sec, model sizes, what formats are supported... But I rarely see an objective accuracy comparison. I repeatedly see that AI models are resilient to errors and reduced precision which is what allows the 1 bit quantization and whatnot.But at a certain point I guess it just breaks? And they need an objective "I gave these tokens, I got out those tokens". But I guess that would need an objective gold standard ground truth that's maybe hard to come by.

4/11/2026, 6:51:23 PM